zone out

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Recent Examples of zone out Everyone has their own way of relieving stress, zoning out from the hassles of day-to-day life. Jim Clash, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024 And to be quite honest, I was literally zoned out, just waiting for the band to come back out — like, OK, when is halftime? Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024 After all, human supervisors get bored and eventually zone out. Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2024 Yet his acknowledgment that just about his favorite activity was zoning out in front of the television sort of presaged — beyond his more famous endeavors — where the entire culture was heading. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for zone out 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for zone out
Verb
  • As the year winds down, so does investors’ practice of dumping their biggest losers late in the year to realize capital losses and then use them to offset capital gains and save on taxes.
    Darla Mercado, CFP®, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Since then, advocates for repealing the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset made a last-ditch lobbying blitz to get the Senate to take it up before the current Congress winds down.
    Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Plus: What better way for locals to veg out during a stressful election season than with some grade-A on-screen drama?
    Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024
  • This isn't only a place to veg out, though.
    Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2023
Verb
  • Did Phoebe get bummed out again because they were thrown out a second time?
    Bob Sassone, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Usher, Coming Home This is Usher’s best album since 2004’s Confessions, and I’m bummed that more people haven’t listened to it.
    Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Some players got even more creative with loosening up overtime.
    The Athletic NHL Staff, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Pull your mum out of the pot and loosen up the root ball with your fingers, especially any circling roots.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Coyote caught chilling out in front yard in rare security camera footage A coyote was caught sitting in the front yard of a home in Cape Coral, Florida, via security camera.
    Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2024
  • The Ultimate Wellness Escape Lands in Antarctica Want to chill out on your next vacation—how about a wellness retreat near the South Pole?
    Passport by ForbesLife, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • My heartbeat pounded in my ears, drowning out the anticipatory purr of two ambulance engines idling nearby.
    Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Plus, the company furloughed 82 employees last week, and also idled its Oklahoma factory – where it's believed to have produced only a small number of vehicles for fleet customers.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Get our daily newsletter Yet Mr Schwarzman avoids footling with life’s foot-soldiers for a reason.
    The Economist, The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Last year an American startup called Swarm Technologies paid a footling $900,000 fine for sending four tiny satellites into orbit on an Indian rocket, having been denied permission to do so by the US Federal Communications Commission.
    The Economist, The Economist, 17 July 2019
Verb
  • Some are couch-potato cancers, mostly just loafing around.
    Maya Singer, Vogue, 23 July 2024
  • Matthes, an ecologist who works with Friends of the Koala, grew up naming the koalas that loafed around in her backyard.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 June 2024

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“Zone out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zone%20out. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.

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